Episode 8: “Rise up to life, for you have not died.” The Faiyum Mummy Portraits: 1st Century B.C. to the 3rd Century A.D.

The story of the Faiyum Mummy Portraits, among the oldest surviving paintings of individuals in History. Episode Icon: Fayum portrait of a man, mid-2nd century, Myers Collection, Eton College, Wikimedia Commons, Public Domain. Links to photos associated with the episode... Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/historyhouse1.bsky.social/post/3le4pyrjzy22o Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/19wQHf1XMa/?mibextid=wwXIfr Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DD_0Lz-MxVb/?igsh=MXN1ZXB4b3lmODhqaQ== Recommended further reading… Doxiadis, Euphrosyne, 'The Mysterious Fayum Portraits, Faces from Ancient Egypt', (London, New York, 1995, 2024) Paterson, Andrew, 'Late Antique Portraits and Early Christian Icons, The Power of the Painted Gaze', (New York, Oxford, 2022) Price, Campbell, 'Golden Mummies of Egypt, Interpreting Identities from the Graeco-Roman Period', (Manchester, 2023) Picton, Janet, Quirke, Stephen, Roberts, Paul C. (eds.), 'Living Images, Egyptian Funerary Portraits in the Petrie Museum', (Walnut Creek, California, 2007) Roberts, Paul, 'Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt, (London, 2008) Svoboda, Marie, Cartwright, Caroline R. (eds.), 'Mummy Portraits of Roman Egypt, Emerging Research from the APPEAR Project', (Los Angeles, 2020) Walker, Susan (ed.), 'Ancient Faces, Mummy Portraits from Roman Egypt', (London, New York, 1997, 2000) APPEAR Project: https://www.getty.edu/projects/appear-project/ Break Music: 'Egyptian Ambience Loop', provided by Alex Major on https://www.pond5.com (Purchased with license on the 21/12/2024), lasts from 11:20-12:21 Ending and closing theme, 'Classical Orchestral Dvorak Serenade Waltz Strings Music, provided by mrqwertz on https://www.pond5.com (Purchased with license on the 01/06/2024)